Mark Leonard's *Surving Chaos* publishing this Friday in the UK.

"Yet another of Mark Leonard's brilliant books."
--Alexander Stubb, President of Finland

One of our most anticipated books of the spring, now in stock and shipping to UK shops through May. Glyn Morgan's Rise and Fall of American Europe.

Maybe this account of why the BBC is cutting public events staff also explains why its website is full of American celebrity news. Depressing.

Parties exploit Asian networks for votes – Electoral Commission Electioneering is delegated to ethnic kinship groups, report says, leaving communities vulnerable to fraud

We shouldn't pretend away the message whoever the messenger. There are patterns of electoral fraud among some Asian communities & if we don't take the problem seriously, the right will reply in kind. Here's a soft take, the Guardian's blame-the-parties view. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Contributor: We shouldn't treat Disney adults like cultural abominations Seeking an escape at one of Mickey's parks isn't any worse than checking out by playing video games, watching sports or reading smutty novels.

Adam Kadlac, author of The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life, in the LA Times: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Looking good at the Polity stand today in Oxford @pjthinker.bsky.social & @mattsleat.bsky.social

Raymond Geuss's *Tracks in Chaos*. Now in the warehouse and available in the UK on 10 April.

Crucial background for the current conflict. Hamid Azizi's *Axis of Resistance*. Due in May in UK/Europe, summer in US.

Does strategic bombing, like in Iran, achieve major policy goals? The record is not good. John Arquilla's timely book about what the US gets wrong when it goes to war. Due in the US in June.

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A great review of Gerald Garutti's *Watch Your Words*, a crtitique of our contemporary abuse of language (not least on social media like this).

ethicalspace.pubpub.org/pub/cg4a97lz...

Proofs are in for Glyn Morgan's prescient *Rise and Fall of American Europe*. Books due in late spring. Glyn analyses exactly the political choices that European leaders are now confronting with Trump's aggression over Greenland.

Published today in the UK, Matt Sleat's critique of post-liberalism.

Coming to bookstores in 2026. If you can't wait, the fall of American Europe is, of course, already available in reality.

Andrea Capussela, what have we not learned from the Financial Crisis? — Institute of Intellectual History Political economist Andrea Capussela discusses how a republican conception of freedom and Schumpeter’s idea of ‘creative destruction’ can converge to foster economic reform and innovation.

Andrea Capussela on what we haven't learned from the financial crisis: www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-br...

Postliberals Don’t Understand What’s Wrong With America Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.

Matt McManus at Jacobin reviews Paul Kelly and Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: jacobin.com/2025/12/post...

Not sure of all he has in mind but he notes, e.g, that raising the UK’s pension age by 1 year is more effective in having a lower share of pensioners than tripling net migration. He also notes that demographers show immigration makes the population younger in the short-run yet older in the long-run.

You may be right. But see FT on Alan Manning's new book today: "One [overblown] claim [he challenges] is that rich countries need higher immigration to pay for healthcare & pensions... But migrants too grow old, & other policies — pension reform, say — are far more powerful tools."

Why Immigration Policy Is Hard — a guide to breaking out of the ‘infernal circle’ Economist Alan Manning takes a balanced, sometimes uncomfortable look at the costs, benefits and trade-offs of migration

FT on Alan Manning's new book: "Anyone who thinks they know how rich countries should frame their rules on immigration should read economist Alan Manning’s carefully balanced guide to the complexities of the subject."

www.ft.com/content/9005...

Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do better.

'Why Immigration Policy Is Hard' is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life.

If I recall correctly, anxiety about immigration did drop in polls after Brexit but resumed when numbers soared to record highs. And recall that gross immigration = 900,000, so that 1 in 77 people in the country arrived in the year to June 25 (1 in 30 over the past 2 yrs). We're not Fortress UK.

Although, we're having a population boom now so when the immigrants get older they may be like the baby boom generation in numbers, only (I assume) poorer.

I'm puzzled by this thread & the comments as immigration is historically v. high. Even today's stats about a drop in net immigration misses that gross immigration was 900,000 (lots of people left, notably young Brits). So 1 in 77 people in the UK arrived in the year to June 2025. How high can we go?

For those who want to know the economic facts about immigration (neither "side" will like all he has to say), LSE labour economist Alan Manning has a new book out tomorrow.

Out tomorrow, Alan Manning's Why Immigration Policy is Hard.

People need to read [Manning's] work before immigration tears us apart.
-Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate

Fantastic, accessible & wittily written... It has challenged, sharpened & changed my thinking.
-Stephen Bush, FT

The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom, True freedom, Capussela writes, arises when no one is subject to another’s will, be that the will of an employer, Big Tech, or the so-ca...

My ‘republic’ is out today: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Grateful to my editor @iannmalcolm.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social (and to @brankomilan.bsky.social @glgerstle.bsky.social)
These are the reviews, as good as they are undeserved:
‘This imaginative and illuminating study ...

How did Canada come to exist and how has it remained sovereign despite repeated overtures, some nicer than others, from the south? I'm delighted to say the great Robert Bothwell is writing a book for Polity on the subject. Due to be completed in the spring.

“A fantastic, accessible and wittily written book regardless of where you sit on the issue – if you have an interest in immigration policy you should read it.” Stephen Bush, The Financial Times

Two new books to make sense of postliberalism. @pjthinker.bsky.social; @mattsleat.bsky.social

J.D. Vance calls himself a ‘post-liberal’: here’s what that means for US government J.D. Vance is religious, has conservative views on social issues, but also believes in big government’s power to change society.

Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: J.D. Vance calls himself a ‘post-liberal’: here’s what that means for US government theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...

Now available in the US. To help understand what norms Trump is breaking, Kori Schake's history of American civil-military relations.